Definition for Flattery:

• excessive or insincere praise

Synonyms for Flattery:

• n.

  •
  • bootlicking,
  • hokum,
  • oil,
  • blandishment,
  • tribute,
  • Puffery,
  • credit,
  • eyewash,
  • wheedling,
  • honeyed words,
  • Strokes,
  • gallantry,
  • recognition,
  • palaver,
  • compliments,
  • plaudits,
  • regard,
  • respect,
  • Toadying,
  • gratification,
  • fawning,
  • blarney,
  • soft words,
  • unctuousness,
  • brown-nosing,
  • applesauce.
  •
  • slaver,
  • incense.
  •false praise, compliments (noun)
  • fawning,
  • flattering,
  • tribute,
  • eulogy,
  • adulation,
  • commendation,
  • flummery,
  • Puffery,
  • blarney,
  • hokum,
  • cajolery,
  • blandishment,
  • snow job,
  • ingratiation,
  • soft-soap,
  • servility,
  • laud,
  • unctuousness,
  • honeyed words,
  • encomium,
  • plaudits,
  • fulsomeness,
  • obsequiousness,
  • snow,
  • soft words,
  • Toadyism,
  • eyewash,
  • pretty speech,
  • applause,
  • palaver,
  • mush,
  • jive,
  • incense,
  • sycophancy,
  • stroke,
  • bootlicking,
  • truckling,
  • smoke,
  • approbation,
  • gallantry,
  • gratification.
  •flattery (noun)
  • adulation,
  • cajolery,
  • idolization,
  • accolade.
  •kudos (noun)
  • plaudits.
  •misrepresentation (noun)
  • snow job.
  •praise (noun)
  • sanction,
  • eulogy,
  • commendation,
  • glorification,
  • admiration,
  • compliment,
  • endorsement,
  • acclaim,
  • praise,
  • approval,
  • recommendation,
  • exaltation,
  • applause.

• v.

  •persuading (verb)
  • snow job.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • blandishment.
  •
  • oil.
  •cajolery
  • blarney.
  •Other relevant words:
  • charlatanism,
  • lip homage,
  • magnification,
  • make up to,
  • courtyard,
  • lip service,
  • gammon,
  • boloney,
  • homage,
  • soft,
  • worship,
  • recognition,
  • allude,
  • fawn on,
  • grovel,
  • cant,
  • hokum,
  • subjection,
  • shrink,
  • indicate,
  • deception,
  • baseness,
  • snow job,
  • butter,
  • flattering,
  • congratulation,
  • coax,
  • bouquet,
  • Charlatanry,
  • quackery,
  • fulsomeness,
  • Cajolement,
  • toffee,
  • duplicity,
  • pat on the back,
  • Subserviency,
  • cheating,
  • mean-spiritedness,
  • ballocks,
  • grovelling,
  • flummery,
  • congratulations,
  • waffle,
  • favour,
  • slaver,
  • blandishment,
  • reassurance,
  • honeyed words,
  • suggest,
  • pretty speech,
  • abjection,
  • Puffery,
  • Prosternation,
  • cower,
  • kudos,
  • Idolizing,
  • approbation,
  • idolatry,
  • laud,
  • soap,
  • prostration,
  • steal,
  • civility,
  • insincerity,
  • plaudits,
  • grease,
  • snow,
  • shit,
  • hypocrisy,
  • brown-nosing,
  • hogwash,
  • jesuitism,
  • debate,
  • Flatteries,
  • cringe,
  • acclamation,
  • plaudit,
  • prevarication,
  • apotheosis,
  • wince,
  • sliminess,
  • stroke,
  • truckling,
  • cheering,
  • cringing,
  • incense,
  • humbug,
  • rubbish,
  • reduce,
  • tribute,
  • buncombe,
  • sorghum,
  • Gloze,
  • ingratiation,
  • submission,
  • encomium,
  • Bam,
  • Servileness,
  • pat,
  • flannel,
  • Lionizing,
  • hollowness,
  • deceit,
  • eyewash,
  • sweet nothings,
  • apple-polishing,
  • conference,
  • soft-soap,
  • servility,
  • nonsense,
  • hero worship,
  • acquiescence,
  • subservience,
  • ingratiate,
  • Strokes,
  • credit,
  • beguilement,
  • crap,
  • compliments,
  • timeserving,
  • Eloge,
  • smoke,
  • Toadying,
  • deification,
  • Abjectness,
  • mush,
  • wheedling,
  • slavery,
  • cheers,
  • Pharisaism,
  • humility,
  • soft words,
  • bad faith,
  • Flam,
  • weasel words,
  • honey,
  • blarney,
  • crocodile tears,
  • wheedle,
  • Eulogium,
  • flinch,
  • creep,
  • applesauce,
  • persuade,
  • unctuousness,
  • court,
  • imply,
  • curry favor with,
  • hommage,
  • sycophancy,
  • conversation,
  • flimflam,
  • Laudation,
  • flatter,
  • crawl,
  • jive,
  • honour,
  • horseshit,
  • inveigle,
  • bullshit,
  • bollocks,
  • panegyric,
  • perfidy,
  • jesuitry,
  • bull,
  • glory,
  • insinuate,
  • slavishness,
  • meanness,
  • encouragement,
  • butter up,
  • Sycophantism,
  • smarminess,
  • adoration,
  • bounce,
  • mithai,
  • stroking,
  • honor,
  • mouth honor,
  • gratification,
  • Toadyism,
  • fawning,
  • cock,
  • obsequiousness,
  • palaver,
  • bootlicking,
  • paean,
  • taffy,
  • vileness,
  • overpraise,
  • submissiveness,
  • genuflection,
  • regard,
  • codswallop,
  • gallantry,
  • abasement,
  • respect,
  • coquetry,
  • Double dealing,
  • oil,
  • adumbrate,
  • bunkum.

Antonyms for Flattery:

• n.

  • false praise, compliments
    castigation, criticism, insult, blame, belittlement, offense, denunciation, condemnation.
  • Other antonyms:
    blame, hissing, censure, animadversion, denunciation, disparagement, obloquy, vilification, contempt, vituperation, ignominy, reproach, condemnation, repudiation, depreciation, belittlement, scorn, reproof, disapproval, detraction, disapprobation, slander, abuse.

Hypernym for Flattery:

• n.

  • communication
    blandishment, soft soap, blarney, coaxing, Puffery, adulation, cajolery, sweet talk, palaver.

Hyponym for Flattery:

• n.

  • communication
    compliment.